An IndyCar Team Captured Some Awesome Pit Stop Footage With Google Glasshttp://www.businessinsider.com/indycar-team-captures-pit-stop-footage-with-google-glass-2014-5/comments
en-usWed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500Fri, 09 Dec 2016 12:41:39 -0500Benjamin Zhanghttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/536a99fd6bb3f7260609b1fcDavid GeeWed, 07 May 2014 16:39:25 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/536a99fd6bb3f7260609b1fc
Overall, I love your site and visit in at least once a day...BUT...I am continually frustrated by your writers' - and editors' - lack of basic knowledge about cool stuff I really care about, such as cars, boats and planes.
The latest transgression; your lede to this otherwise awesome story/video capturing an abbreviated lap around the IMS road course and the practice pit stop all recorded by Google Glass.
Unmitigated means absolute or unqualified, as in "the handling of Target's data security breach was an unmitigated disaster."
An IndyCar pit stop, or one in any other form of motorsport for that matter, is anything but absolute chaos. In fact, it is the opposite of that. It is one of the most tightly choreographed - and intense - few seconds in all of sport.
I used to do the PR for a NASCAR team, and we outsourced all the pit crew hiring and training to a dedicated company. They would find athletes (often former D1 SEC football players) for specific roles, such as gas man and jack man, and train them tirelessly to be an over-the-wall crew member.
They would have regular three-hour training sessions between races, where they perform the equivalent of several pit stops, go through long periods of stretching and very intense 30-minute workouts focused on agility, balance, conditioning, explosiveness and strength.
Once a race car pulls into the pits, every step - and every second - of their actions is planed to the nth degree.
Last summer the Red Bull Racing Formula One team claimed a new record for the fastest-ever routine pit stop during a Grand Prix, when Mark Webber's car in the Malaysian Grand Prix was stationary for only 2.05 seconds while all four tires were removed and replaced.
There is a good reason for the old cliche "the race is won and loss in the pits." Pit crew performance is tied to track position. And with so much at stake in these multi-million dollar forms of motorsport, there is no way pit crews could perform the way they do in such pressure packed situations, if it even remotely resembled chaos.
You should choose your words more carefully!